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Position: Support Worker
Care home: Meadowcroft
Location: Sutton-in-Ashfield, NG17 4BR
Contract type: Permanent 42 hours per week 12 hour shifts on a rota, includes weekend working
Rate: £13.21 per hour (increasing to £13.31 on completion on Exemplar Care Certificate)
Care home CQC rating: Good
Are you a caring, compassionate and cheerful person with lots to give? Join us as our new Health Care Assistant (also known as Support Workers) at Meadowcroft care home in Sutton-in-Ashfield.
As a Health Care Assistant, you’ll support adults living with complex mental health needs to live their best lives.
This role will give you a tremendous sense of achievement and pride – you’ll be making a real difference each and every day.
About Exemplar Health Care
Meadowcroft is part of Exemplar Health Care, one of the country’s leading nursing care providers.
We support adults living with complex mental health needs.
As well as stable and secure employment opportunities, we offer great benefits and perks, and plenty of opportunities to learn, develop and progress.
About the role
Our Health Care Assistants support people to live their best lives, whatever that looks like to them.
No two days will ever be the same, but your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
* encouraging and engaging people in learning and developing their daily living skills and independence
* recognising when people are unwell and providing the appropriate support
* supporting people with their personal care such as getting washed, having a shower and getting dressed
* assisting people at meal times
* supporting people with their health and wellbeing needs
* encouraging people to take part in social activities, both inside and outside the home
* promoting choice, dignity, independence and respect at all times
* filling in care records.
About you
We value relevant experience and qualifications, six months experience in a care setting is required but qualifications aren’t essential for this role.
Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.
You’re also…
* caring, kind, understanding and calm
* able to deal with, and defuse, challenging situations
* energetic and outgoing, with a positive, can-do attitude
* a great listener and communicator.
You’ll put people at the heart of everything you do.
We’ll help you feel right at home from the start with our induction, buddy and ongoing training programmes.
What we offer
We offer great rewards and perks including:
* regular supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
* access to wages before payday
* retail and lifestyle discounts
* free DBS check
* 24/7 counselling and support
* Blue Light Card eligibility.
How to apply
Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’.
Please note, applicants must be authorised to work in the UK. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
We will never ask for payment for job opportunities. Any website or individual requesting money for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) while claiming to represent us is not associated with our organisation
Salary description
£13.21 - £13.21 per hour